From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 6 10:01:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14276 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:01:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14266 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16623; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:00:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd016531; Wed Jan 6 11:00:31 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06390; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:00:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199901061800.LAA06390@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. To: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com (Drew Baxter) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:00:23 +0000 (GMT) Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990105215759.00c0b6d0@genesis.ispace.com> from "Drew Baxter" at Jan 5, 99 10:03:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Alright, so I'm assuming a bunch of crap. The bottom line is the PS/2 > ports don't like to be hot plugged, because the BIOS checks for the devices > upon bootup. If you've ever seen a Packard Bell (amongst other machines) > it shows "keyboard detected, mouse detected' during the initial startup, > that determines if the computer has them or not right then and there... Perfect. FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS for this stuff. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message